Foss.in - Fedora report

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Foss.in was a rather unique combination of world wide speakers on 
various topics.  Alan Cox was a pretty big celebrity and gave a speech 
on participation and kernel device drivers (quite a crowd puller) . 
James Morris who gave a couple of speeches on SELinux has blogged about 
this experiences.

http://fedoraproject.org/people/

There are various other interesting aspects on the conference but I will 
keep this short. From the Fedora perspective, Tejas talk went pretty 
well and he had his share of fun in the QA session ;-). The following 
things could be improved

* More variety of talks and BOFs on Fedora in different themes
* Get a better conference kit including banners, live cds, handouts and 
other goodies

Note to Ambassadors and myself:

Speakers need to be acquainted with the driving principles behind 
Fedora, governance models, various technologies being included in Fedora 
like SELinux or GFS, whats included in Fedora Core and  Extras along 
with upcoming plans for Fedora and projects like Fedora Directory 
Server, Xen, System Tap and Frysk. If you are an ambassadors keep a lot 
of references handy to throw out for inquisitive people in the audience 
and be prepared to answer various tricky questions. Make sure you 
mention all the different ways to get involved or contribute. Keep a 
list of stats like download, number of packages, contributors etc.  If 
you are going to organize a stall or give a speech make sure you prepare 
a list  of all kind of crazy questions and shoot them out to the 
ambassadors list and get yourself acquainted before get on stage.

regards
Rahul